U.S. Mint fills in its June 2017 calendar

Edited May 16 at 9 p.m. to clarify which American Liberty silver medal will be released in June.

The Mint has updated its product-release schedule to include the month of June, which will be bracketed at the beginning and end of the month by the American Eagle 1-ounce gold and silver Uncirculated coins. The high point will be in the middle of the month—June 14, to be specific—when the Mint will release the 2017-W “Enhanced Uncirculated” American Liberty 225th Anniversary 1-ounce silver medal.

The America the Beautiful Quarters Program will release its third ATB design of the year (and the 38th overall) in June. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways (Missouri) will have its traditional quarter launch and coin exchange on June 5, the same day the roll and bag products are available for order from the Mint’s website. The three-coin set, with special Uncirculated-finish coins from the Philadelphia and Denver mints and a Proof from the San Francisco Mint, will follow on June 26. Although the July calendar won’t be filled in for another month or so, we can expect the 5-ounce silver Uncirculated Ozark coin that month.

The Mint’s annual Silver Proof Set will be available for purchase on June 7. The complete calendar is as follows:

Cool that the American Liberty 225th Anniversary 1-ounce silver medal will be released on Bastille Day. Maybe we can recreate the event by all waiting impatiently outside one of the Mint Stores and then rush in at noon to buy one before they sell out.

I’m curious as to what the Mint will do with the mintages & HHL’s on the 2017 Liberty Silver Medals. I have a feeling the the mintages will be a lot higher than last year but you never know what the Mint will do. It would be cool to have a set though.

Anyone have any idea if the Mint ended production of the Frederick Douglass 5 oz. silver bullion coin at 20,000? APMEX has raised the price on it quite a bit the past couple of days, so I wonder if they’ve been told it’s no longer available to the authorized purchasers?

@BRAD
I purchased a roll from another vendor last night at 6 pm P.S.T.
and just went to check to see if a price change and they now list both singles and rolls unavailable. So something is up, in my opinion.

With regards to the 2017 Silver Proof Eagle (no S) sales are leveling out at around 260K compared to 550K of the 2016 version. I don’t see how the 2017 makes it to 400K at this point. I think the S version “stole” 75K of sales from this version and turned away some people who didn’t get an S and want to keep a complete set. Considering the 1994 version was the previous key with 372K, that number could be under threat.

I understand there are lower mintage issues, but I am only referring to the “regular” issue and finish as the main series. So now we will have a bunch of new keys for special issues being in the 100K range, and the possibility that the mint will be going back to this well more often in the future.

Just another trend line to reinforce the collector base is shrinking theory.

It’s only the middle of May, data Dave. These ’17 silver eagle proofs will, most likely, be offered for another year–plenty of time remains for the sales total to amp up. Many purchasers may be waiting to combine it with an upcoming Mint offering to save on the shipping. The jury is still out on this one.

@ Old Big Bird – Yes, although it would have exactly zero point zero effect on my interest level, that is certainly a possibility with this being a year full of surprises. It would seem to make more sense to include the “S” unc quarter in that set or make a four coin set with both “S”s. I guess anyone who wants an “S” unc. from the mint has to buy at least forty coins. 🙁

@MikeinPA I thought the market was overvalued before the election. First we had the Hillary rally, then the Trump rally. Of course the media was oblivious to the fact that a stock market rally if Hillary were elected AND a stock market rally because Trump was elected is illogical.

Back to coins. Is the product schedule unusually condensed into the first half of the year this year? That could account for some of the slow buying. I’ve put the P pucks on hold due to cost and the fact I’ve seen some listed below issue price.

For all those collectors who say they just “have to have” a silver proof AE coin with an “S” mint mark, please note that from 1986 to 1992, all these silver proof AE coins were struck with an “S” mint mark, and they are all priced close to bullion. That’s good enough for me. I’m not biting on the Mint’s gimmicks and collusion with the big dealers. And let’s call a spade a spade – that is what it is – collusion, and it should be investigated. However, given the Trumpgate saga, doing something like that is on the bottom of the rush pile for any federal auditing agency. So the Mint still has free reign to come up with cagcrisp correctly calls them – gimmicks. A couple of years from now no one will really care about these coins – the big dealers will have made their unholy profits and will have moved on to further gimmick adventures they and the Mint will be cooking up.

The photo of the reverse of the June 14 Liberty medal show a P mint mark, which would match the original information published in Coin World if it’s proof. Suspect the description currently on the Mint site with the W is an error.

With all the hype and hoopla… I’ll show as much interest in this one as I did the last one. I didn’t purchase the 1st one in gold or silver and have little desire to spend my money on this one. If the mint wants to do medals in silver, I’d suggest they complete the presidential medals set.

If you simply look at the photo of the medal, it is not enhanced as the surface is all one finish and most likely proof as originally indicated. And as Asherspapa noted, it has a “P” mintmark. Plus, the whole idea was for the enhanced to be unique to the set, so I am pretty sure the single medal is a P-proof.

I received an email from apmex about the new Ozark puck being on sale and this is what it said, “Following the Frederick Douglass coin, the first ATB since 2015 to sell out from the U.S. Mint within 90 days, the limited-mintage 2017 Ozark National Scenic Riverways is now available to pre-order!” So looks like a sell out, so better get them while you can.

BK – Sorry I missed that one, buddy. I’m often on here at odd hours and not always at optimal alertness. Flew under my radar but now remember thinking there are lots of actual posters with names just like that and a few from FL. Tend to tune that guy out anyway as he’s not one of my fav W.P.ers. I did get your Virgil Runnels reference but can’t remember if I acknowledged it. Guess we’re even though as I think you missed my (yours) “quartered on the port side” joke a while back, ha

There are no Denali completed listings for less than $200. I would expect to get around halfway between Apmex’s buy and sell in a private sale…maybe $175. Both Hawaii and Denali are better designed than Freddie. Even so, it’s reasonable to expect Douglass to eventually bring $150, that’s 30% from here. Upside looks better than downside. I’m in for ten Bob Ross.

I walked my Sealed Box of (15) 2017-S ASE’s around the Macomb Coin Show on the day I took delivery . Most Dealers claimed they just sold their last ones at $55.00 each. Only one Dealer expressed interest at $75.00 each and that was only after he called his flipper connection and had a flip all lined up. I have no use for Coin Dealers anymore. Too much like Used Car Dealers just out to rob someone.

And by the way, I took delivery on a Saturday, the week after the things were offered. They were still hot and fresh ( and sealed and unopened).

Obviously the entire Coin Market preys on the uninformed and desperate and crooks looking for a fence.

The one bright spot left in Numismatics for me lately? The Grove Minting Company and their annual “Commemorative Tokens”. I could care less what the flip potential is. Cost seems to be just enough to cover bullion , design, manufacturing, and maybe a little profit, for Mr. Grove.

The tokens are based on historic designs. Looking at them is pure joy, they’re just beautiful works of Medalic Art.